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during labor, my care team told me to "get mad about something" so that the anger would help me push out baby. I said "bet" and gave a lecture about our abysmal response to bird flu not a scicomm account but will do in a pinch 🦠🧪

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if you see me, weep @sillyandmorbid.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Just watched a woman come out of La Gourmandine (oakland), dump crumbs out of her bag at one of the tables, and then walk off
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if you see me, weep @sillyandmorbid.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
cw #petillness pet illness #petdeath pet death pip-pip has some sort of cancer and when we asked about next steps, the vet started talking about how to tell when it's time to euthanize
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DrPrincessTheSpaceCat @prcatstronaut.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
You can’t be back on your bullshit if you never leave it
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if you see me, weep @sillyandmorbid.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
a paper I'm a co-author on got a write-up on Forbes.com!
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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
eBay have changed their terms of service and you're automatically opted-in for your personal data to be used for AI development and training. To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.
Terms and preferences relating to Ebay's AI training tool
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Pittsburgh: This chain employs a dude named Scott who runs an alt right website that hates every minority you can think of. They were told and refuse to do anything about it. Maybe eat somewhere else. mariospgh.com
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Mario's Saloon – Mario's South Side and East Side Saloon
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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if you see me, weep @sillyandmorbid.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
writers think they're good at interpersonal conflict bc they are "clear communicators." but really they're just good at crafting a narrative that makes them feel better about themselves
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It is worth paying close attention to the new bill "Dangerous Viral Gain of Function Research Moratorium Act" introduced by Senator Roger Marshall. If enacted, it will effectively stop all of virological research, including for vaccines. www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/u... 🧵👇
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Zandrea Ambrose, Ph.D. 🦠🧬🧪🧫 @zandrea.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
How is it that I, a PhD program director at Pitt, heard about this from the media and not my University?!?
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The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025
This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/02/2025
A BBC study just found that generative AI can't even generate news story synopses with any consistent accuracy, and here we are happily pretending it's a symmetrical replacement for education and experience
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Groundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants
Conducted over a month, the study saw the BBC test four prominent, publicly available AI assistants
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 17/02/2025
“I told you so” is just a little ego death it’s not planes falling out of the air or environmental disasters that pollute drinking water or tiny coffins for all the dead kids that childhood epidemics will wipe out. Anyone who prefers mass deaths to hearing they’re wrong is a terrible person
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 17/02/2025
If they can’t handle the discomfort of “I told you so,” then they definitely aren’t ready to be part of an anti-fascist coalition, so this question truly answers itself
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/02/2025
Today is a good day to migrate your content off of Substack so you’re not trying to fight Nazis from inside a Nazi bar.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/02/2025
Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.
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Her job is to remove homeless people from SF's parks. Her methods are extraordinary
Instead of forcing people out of Golden Gate Park, ranger Amanda Barrows helps them find housing.
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Dawid Zyla @dzyla.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I've been developing a semantic search tool that covers not just bioRxiv and medRxiv, but the entire PubMed database. This means you can search across a massive collection of biomedical research using keywords, questions, hypotheses, or even full abstracts. Try it out: mssearch.xyz
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Streamlit
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Black Intellect Media @blackintellect.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to take their purchasing power, which some studies value at over a trillion dollars, to businesses that align with the civil rights group's values.
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if you see me, weep @sillyandmorbid.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
me, uploading pics of my happy healthy ginormous baby: but could a depressed person make this???
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if you see me, weep @sillyandmorbid.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
such bullshit that stress can cause physical symptoms. like I'm not already dealing with enough
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A Trump-Musk memo telling US government employees to hide what’s happening from the public is a sign that: 1) Public legitimacy is a constraint for them, they know it, and will at times alter their behavior accordingly 2) Reporters should focus on it, revealing more of what they’re trying to hide
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025
Like if I cared about my security state I wouldn’t tell spies who know a lot of stuff that I don’t give a fuck about them or any people like them because that’s obviously an invitation to go sell my shit to the highest bidder lol
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power
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if you see me, weep @sillyandmorbid.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
for the curious, I'll save you a google: the internal temp of a burger cooked "medium" is ~140-150F
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
also, because some people are already misinterpreting this: there are no reports of any human contracting H5N1 from the food supply and enough contamination already that we'd have PROBABLY seen it if it were likely to be a thing, but we're not going to have a functional monitoring program anymore
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“It’s kind of bonkers. The amount of money it took to get those varieties in the ground is a lot more than just the pennies for labor to keep them going and collect the data.” Everywhere you look is waste, of money, of effort, of good will. And all of it perpetrated in the name of “efficiency ” 🧪
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Abandoned crops, fired scientists: Agricultural research hit by U.S. foreign aid freeze
A court ruling may temporarily ease funding problems, but for many projects the long term outlook remains uncertain
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/02/2025
Again, Twitter WON this case (decisively) at the district court level. The 9th Circuit made it clear that Twitter would win on appeal at oral args. And now it decided to just hand over $10 million to Trump. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/e...
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Elon Musk's company X settles Trump lawsuit over account suspension
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta recently said it would pay $25 million to settle a similar lawsuit by President Donald Trump.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It is actually genuinely funny that the Army looked at the Executive Order and said "no"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/02/2025
I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.
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Vet found hanging draped in trans flag
The suicide letter they won't publish
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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If only there was a hypothetical case study we could learn from to understand how dangerous it is to let Silicon Valley tech shitheads touch our banking system. Let’s call it “Silicon Valley Bank” and do some economic modeling that doesn’t involve these ‘geniuses’.
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 12/02/2025
What's notable to me is that Republicans see strong energy from their grassroots and try to harness it. Democrats see strong energy from their grassroots and try to destroy it. Loser stuff from Jeffries here.
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
didn't identify any changes in the sequence data from the NV person that might impact antigenicity or susceptibility to antivirals. However, the virus will undergo further analysis & testing. Updated story:🎁Gift link: fortune.com/well/2025/02... #BlueSky  #MedSky 🧪 #IDSky #scisky #medtwitter
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New bird flu variant found in Nevada dairy cows has experts sounding alarms: 'We have never been closer to a pandemic from this virus'
Dairy herds in Nevada have been infected by a version of the H5N1 bird flu not previously seen in cows, putting virologists on high alert.
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
the virus that likely also infected 15 PEOPLE across Iowa, Louisiana, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin in 2024. This change was previously identified in a human case in Chile in 2023. No other changes assoc with mammalian adaption were identified in the sequence data of the Nevada case. The CDC
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING: VIRUS FROM NEVADA DAIRY WORKER WITH BIRD FLU HAS THE SAME GENETIC MUTATION seen in the Nevada cows – a change of PB2 D701N that has previously been assoc with more efficient virus replication in ppl & mammals. CDC told Fortune that the D1.1 variant in this worker is the same strain of
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A dairy farmer in Nevada has testing positive for bird flu. It's not yet know if it's the D.1.1 genotype. Would be interesting to keep an eye on this. www.cidrap.umn.edu/nevada-repor...
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Nevada reports H5N1 in dairy worker; USDA fleshes out D1.1 sequencing from affected herds
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Courts *ordered* the Trump admin to stop its spending freeze Yet ProPublica found place after place where $ is still frozen -hot meals for elderly and disabled -groceries for those in need -maternal & child health services -a clinic that serves the poor www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...
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Ashley Esqueda @ashleyesqueda.com · 10/02/2025
Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
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MrsBundrige @mrsbundrige.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
They weren’t lied to. I get the point is to focus on how we get past “blame” to focus more on building. The issue is that blame is being conflated with accountability. If I need to trust you so that we can work together, you need to build that trust through contrition and ownership of your wrong.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/04/2024
My grandfather was a radioman on bombers in the Pacific during WWII. When he was in India, people would follow him around. The guys in his unit said it was because Indians believed Jesus had red hair like him, but we learned after he died that Lund means penis in Hindi and it was on all his clothes.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
As we’re seeing, being afraid to speak out and keeping your mouth shut doesn’t stop the fascists from coming after you. Universities thought they could keep their heads down or placate the right by going after student protesters and it got them worse than nowhere.
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Dylan Williams @dylanwilliams.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A serious proposal: If the Trump administration is going to neglect and eliminate entire US Government functions, Democrats should select a full shadow cabinet to fill the void. Send an alt SecState to the G20, have an alt CDC Director let us know what’s really going on with Bird Flu and TB, etc.
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if you see me, weep @sillyandmorbid.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
might surprise some ppl how high Pitt is ranked in government r&d funding....
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It really is extraordinary when you think about it that the wealthiest most privileged humans who have ever existed are in full revenge mode against the planet and its inhabitants because racism isn’t as popular as they’d like
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